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Keo/Delta/SPD-SL style to SPD cleats

  • 04-05-2015 10:44pm
    #1
    Weepsie
    Site Banned Posts: 20,685 ✭✭✭✭


    After much putting it off, been finally trying to get myself using clipless pedals. I have Some shoes and keo pedals on one of the bikes. Been heading out once/twice a week for 20 km or so in them, but there's some unease. I think they'd be useless on my commute if I wanted to put them on more bikes as I've a lot of lights to stop at some days, and my methods is to slow well in advance and unclip and plant the left, though sometimes I go to put the right down and get in a panic.

    I've thought about taking a step back and going with SPDs for the bikes. I don't do any racing, no intention of doing racing, but plans for a couple of 100km + cycles, but they might contain several stops so SPDs I imagine would be better. Is it a terrible idea to stop with the keos, and try and get comfortable with the actual idea of being clipped?


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  • #2
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    I went from SPDs to Keo's which I hated to SPD-SLs which I get on grand with, they're much easier to get going on as there is a bit of surface on the pedal there is a noticeable difference in power with the SPD-SLs vs the SPDs but I'm not sure I'll ever lose the little voice in my head that tells me I should have stuck with SPDs and invested my money in stiff carbon soled MTB shoes.

    (Still use SPDs on my other bikes for commuting etc.)


  • #3
    Weepsie
    Site Banned Posts: 20,685 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Cheers. I had SPDs on a bike I got rid of, but they could also take normal runners so never attempted to figure them out.

    Might go with these and another pair, and get something else thrown in free

    http://www.halfords.ie/cycling/parts/pedals-pegs/shimano-clickr-t400-pedals-black


  • #4
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,013 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Weepsie wrote: »
    ... and unclip and plant the left, though sometimes I go to put the right down and get in a panic...
    If you were wearing ordinary footwear which foot would you put down at the lights? For the vast majority of people it would be the same foot. It seems unusual that you would alternate between left and right. I would always unclip the left as it is more natural to push off again using my right. I think your problem may lie with co-ordination rather than the actual pedal type. Unclipping at lights/junctions should become a natural reaction rather than something requiring active thought - just like changing gear, braking etc.


  • #5
    Weepsie
    Site Banned Posts: 20,685 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Thinking about it, it's the left foot generally anyway, might pay more observation to it exactly. It's probably as you say a bit of coordination, and I'm certainly overthinking it for fear of falling over. No harm in having two types possible. More practice anyway required, I'll try around the estate for a bit or in the park some more just doing it a bit more often.


  • #6
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,596 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Stick with the Keos, it's just a matter of getting used to them.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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  • #7
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    I use spd's on a road bike, no bother unclipping, Get stiff soled shoes, no bother cycling a tonne or more.

    If you have a city commute with 1way streets etc, you often change your planting foot to put the nearest to the kerb down ( like when turning right)

    Or learn to trackstand, which is when you learn to unclip really fast, on either side....


  • #8
    Weepsie
    Site Banned Posts: 20,685 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Carawaystick wrote: »
    I use spd's on a road bike, no bother unclipping, Get stiff soled shoes, no bother cycling a tonne or more.

    If you have a city commute with 1way streets etc, you often change your planting foot to put the nearest to the kerb down ( like when turning right)

    Or learn to trackstand, which is when you learn to unclip really fast, on either side....

    This,

    I paid more attention this morning. Nearly always the left, but if I'm going right, or have had to move from a left filtering lane to the right/middle one to go straight on I seem to use the right. I'll keep plugging away in the evenings til I get it.


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